A Japanese rock garden (translation: karesansui) shares a close relationship to the

Japanese view of “wabi-sabi,” which is finding the beauty in everything through its simplicity

and imperfection and is also the theme I chose to work with when making my plate for

Yoru no Ume. I used a tool that looks like a rake to imitate the lines put in Japanese rock

gardens that represent silence and make the rocks resemble flowing water.